How It Works - Part Two

​How it Works (part 2)
High achievers on the SAT
      make for mighty poor
           foot soldiers
Likewise, intolerance and self-justification
      follow blindly a dull unfamiliarity
           with the Classics
Hence, America’s ruling race seeks to train
               ---rather than educate---
                   its masses
Philosophy, art, history, anthropology, literature---
     are all enemies of the Great State
Their calculated degradation is conflated with patriotism:
Which herald’s any scoundrel who will wave the flag